Example sentences of "it seem [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the eyes of a deckhand in his twenties who joined the " Sunderland Union " in the days of John Beresford and who was already a member of the Australian Seamen 's Union , it seemed little more than a " miscellaneous collection of beards and whiskers " including " old greybeards of sixty , seventy and eighty years of age , with little idea of how to conduct business " , who " reflected the pessimistic outlook of their leaders , supposing that everything was wrong and that nothing could be put right " . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's all right , ’ although , as she looked through the crack it did not seem all right at all ; in fact it seemed all wrong . |
| 3 | It seemed all wrong that I had horizontal loops across the face of the work . |
| 4 | But hearing that you were blind , I could n't ask , it seemed all wrong . |
| 5 | Each game lasted approximately 30 minutes , although it seemed much less . |
| 6 | Such a heroic venture requires heroic singing , and that is where it seemed this enthralling evening would fall short of its target . |
| 7 | Now it seems that successive governments have just have n't lived up to their obligation to wield the stick , and Harlow council just have n't had the sense to reach for the carrot in that that local people are caught in the middle ! |
| 8 | It seems that 15 or 20 years ago . |
| 9 | Where the treaty language indicates the parties ' intention that the Canal shall have international usage , that the regime shall be permanent , and is to further the global need for open communication routes it seems that third party rights must be recognised . |
| 10 | For François Couperin , it seems that 3/2 in void notation also denoted a slow tempo . |
| 11 | So it seems that 22–1 was n't such a good price after all : - ( . |
| 12 | It seems little short of incredible now that such a talent should not have been any source of income for half a century after she left art school , but heartening that the lack of any fiscal reward and only intermittent recognition from her peers made no impact on her creative energies . |
| 13 | Secondly , at any time in the relevant period the property given to the donee must be enjoyed by the donee or it seems any other person to the entire exclusion or virtually to the entire exclusion of the donor . |
| 14 | The only doubt concerns the date ; it seems these early records could be from any year between 1889 and 1891 , so whether Edison or Berliner was actually first to make records with a ‘ label ’ is open to debate . |
| 15 | While in theory all parties are agreed that the talks should cover three ‘ strands ’ — Northern Ireland , north-south and Anglo-Irish relations — one UUP source said : ‘ It seems these three strands mean different things to different people . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It seems this negative approach has more to do with people 's perception of George Michael than anything else . ’ |
| 17 | But it seems this other relation has inherited his whole fortune . |
| 18 | It 's early days yet … but it seems this fishy find from the outer Hebrides could bring fresh hope and health to many thousands of people . |
| 19 | More Danish women than men practise receptive anal intercourse , and it seems this sexual practice has become more prevalent during the past decades . |
| 20 | I 've heard from Tim and Mark , as well as others ( Kevin and Arif and Phil and Neil ) , and it seems this change-of-address thing is happening to loads of you . |
| 21 | ‘ But it seems this particular young man is in something of a hurry . |
| 22 | Now for a bee to know the location of a barren car park which had certainly not been on their list of flower sites , it seems most reasonable to suppose that they were able to ‘ place ’ it on some sort of internal map and then work out the direction home . |
| 23 | It seems most extraordinary . ’ |
| 24 | It seems most odd that a genteel seventy-year-old spinster , or her executors , would want to have the body embalmed by a newly hatched 29-year-old surgeon . |
| 25 | Given that ( i ) no other sources support this view ; ( ii ) the view is none the less generally reasonable ; ( iii ) evidence from Pomponius ( and perhaps also Julian ) seems to speak against it for the second century ; and ( iv ) a Justinianic interpolation seems unlikely , it seems most probable that the text represents the genuine view of Papinian . |
| 26 | It seems most surprising that the breweries consider the large open space to be the pub 's ideal internal form , or believe the artificial , standardised ‘ historic ’ pub interior to be preferable to genuine historic detail , when the original internal divisions and features are essential elements of the historic character that customers expect when entering such a building . |
| 27 | The account makes a good deal of sense at whatever spatial level it is employed , but it seems most applicable at a level considerably beyond any modern residentially based labour market . |
| 28 | It seems most fitting that the qualities of the Blenheim 's wartime crews are being perpetuated by such people . |
| 29 | It seems most likely then , that the increasing police budgets ( up from £3.35 billion in 1988/9 to £4.1 billion in 1989/90 ) , which have risen by over 50 per cent in real terms since 1979 , will be used to maintain , defend , and expand on this hegemonic style . |
| 30 | It seems most likely that an appreciable quantity of unreduced bis(2-azidoethyl)ether was still present in the ‘ diamine ’ . |